I've been a Kenwood fan for years. I currently have a Kenwood unit in my daily that's a CD w/ the usb and I've been rocking it for a little over 3 years. I think I paid like 139.99 for it with a 4 year warranty. Best Buy carries it for sure. They still have a similar one to what I have, just a little newer. I also have a Kenwood CD player that is 13 years old and still works, but the LCD went out, otherwise still works. I've always had good luck with Kenwood over the years from head units to speakers, to amps.

My favorite deck of all time though is the JVC El Kameleon I had in the lowrider back in the day. That was the coolest designed deck I've ever owned. Had it 3 years and sold it with the car still functioning perfectly.

Ive also only ever used kenwood and pioneer, and both were no problems, i have the kenwood kdcx494 in mine now, bought it in 2011 when someone broke in my other caprice and stole the pioneer, its still works great.

Back in the days before in-dash cd players I had a killer Yamaha head unit. Pull-out chassis and all.

If you use a din-chassis unit, there's room for a 1/2 din EQ to be mounted above it.

I have a cheezy JVC head unit in my blazer but it uses my steering wheel controls, so that makes it cool. It has all the goodies, usb, ipod, etc. It was something like $139 at best buy. I've had it for a little over a year and still haven't figured out how to turn the damn thing off without removing the face off it. Sooner or later I'm going to have to read the instructions, lol!